This research examined the total extractable hydrocarbon content comprising of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), petroleum (TPHs), hydrogen carbon (THC) and organic nitrogen (TON) an oil-spill-impacted site in Ogoni land, Okenta Alode, Eleme local government area, Rivers state, Nigeria. Sediment samples crude oil contaminated soils were randomly collected from different points at study s...

Strains of Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 biotype El Tor that are susceptible to Mukerjee cholera bacteriophage group IV (S. Mukerjee, Bull. W.H.O. 28:333-336, 1963) were found. Cholera vibrios isolated from epidemics in northeast Thailand were characterized, and 57 of 60 strains isolated in 1986 were susceptible to cholera phage IV. However, all 113 strains isolated in 1988 were not susceptible ...

Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor variant strains produced much more cholera toxin than did prototype El Tor strains. The amount of cholera toxin produced by El Tor variant strains both in vitro and in vivo was more or less equivalent to that produced by classical strains.

regions would be conserved differently must be considered. It is probable that subsequent sequences of HGyVs remain to be identified in human blood. A recent study reported the characterization of a highly divergent GyV sequence (GyV4) in human fecal samples and chicken meat (7); as with avian GyV2 and GyV3, further research is needed to determine whether this variant replicates in the human bo...

In August 2010, Pakistan experienced major floods and a subsequent cholera epidemic. To clarify the population dynamics and transmission of Vibrio cholerae in Pakistan, we sequenced the genomes of all V. cholerae O1 El Tor isolates and compared the sequences to a global collection of 146 V. cholerae strains. Within the global phylogeny, all isolates from Pakistan formed 2 new subclades (PSC-1 a...

Viral and immunologic examination of human immunodefi ciency virus type-1 infected , persistently seronegative persons. Rapid disease progression without sero-conversion following primary human im-munodefi ciency virus type 1 infection— evidence for highly susceptible human hosts. J, et al. Human immunodefi ciency virus infection and AIDS in a person with negative serology. humoral and cellular...

Autoagglutinable strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 (seven nonfimbriate strains and one fimbriate strain) were transformed to obtain resistance to ampicillin. Two distinct mechanisms were found in these strains. One was operating in nonfimbriate strains by reducing OmpU protein production and the other was operating in a fimbriate strain (Bgd17) by newly overproducing cpxP protein. The twitching mot...

The title compound, [Ag(C9H10NO3)] n , is a polymeric silver(I) complex of l-tyrosine. The Ag(I) atom is connected to N and O atoms of two different l-tyrosine ligands in an almost linear arrangement, with an N(i)-Ag-O1 bond angle of 173.4 (2)° [symmetry code: (i) x + 1, y, z]. The Ag-N(i) and Ag-O bond lengths are 2.156 (5) and 2.162 (4) Å, respectively. The polymeric chains extend along the c...

Here, we present the draft whole-genome sequence of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains 76 and M3265/80, isolated in Mariupol, Ukraine, and Moscow, Russia. The presence of various mutations detected in virulence-associated mobile elements indicates high genetic similarity of the strains reported here with new highly virulent variants of the cholera agent V. cholerae.